Holly Staker's Kin Is Suing Once More

Waukegan — The family of a murdered Waukegan baby-sitter has refiled a lawsuit against the dealer of an electronic home prisoner monitoring system, alleging it failed and contributed to her death.

Holly Staker's family filed the suit in Lake County Court against Corrections Services Inc., or CSI, of Ft. Lauderdale this week, the family's attorney, Shawn Kasserman, said Friday. The filing came less than a month after a judge dismissed a civil suit by the girl's family against Lake County and CSI, which sold the monitoring device to the county.

DuPage County Judge Richard Lucas, hearing the case after Lake County judges recused themselves, ruled that Lake County was immune from such suits. However, Lucas gave the girl's family three weeks to refile the suit if they named only CSI as defendant.

Holly, 11, was murdered in August 1992 by Juan Rivera, then a 20-year-old convicted burglar who was confined to his home with the leg monitor while awaiting trial on another burglary charge. Prosecutors said Rivera slipped out of the monitor and left his home undetected.

He was convicted of murder last year and was sentenced to life in prison.